Covid PPE procurement saw ‘vast’ £10 billion waste, inquiry finds

Christopher McKeon, Press Association Political Correspondent The scramble to buy PPE during the pandemic saw the UK waste almost £10 billion of taxpayers’ money, the official inquiry into the handling of Covid-19 has found. In the fifth report of her inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett criticised the “vast” waste in pandemic procurement, amounting to £9.9 billion…